[luau] INFO: Heavy duty storage needs

[Warren Togami]

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From: "MonMotha" <monmotha at indy.rr.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [luau] INFO: Heavy duty storage needs


> I'm glad someone liked my explanation :)
>
>
> I recently built a nice dualie AMD 1.4GHz, 2GB DDR, with 2xU160 36GB
> 15kRPM hard drives.  It's (among other things) a proxy server and
> mailer.  Proxying, especially when also doing mail, involves some
> bandwidth (but not excessive, it's only a 1gbit uplink to the LAN), but
> it also involves a lot of seeking.  The tagged command queuing and
> reduced seek times of the SCSI drives are a big advantage on this puppy.
>

Have you considered vserver for that machine?  It would greatly enhance
security and flexibility... and I look forward to seeing what kind of neat
iptables tricks you can do with multiple vservers (and perhaps multiple IP
aliases).

http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc